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Aspects of Heterotic/M-Theory Duality in D=3

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v2

Authors: Michael Haack , Jan Louis

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Abstract

We study the duality between M-theory compactified on Calabi-Yau fourfolds and the heterotic string compactified on Calabi-Yau threefolds times a circle. Our analysis is based on a comparison of the low energy effective actions in three dimensions.

Keywords

M-theory heterotic string duality Calabi-Yau low energy effective action compactification

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/9908067,
  title  = {Aspects of Heterotic/M-Theory Duality in D=3},
  author = {Michael Haack and Jan Louis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9908067},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

5 pages, no figures, uses cargese.cls; changed some references and the discussion of the moduli space on the M-Theory side